childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we … employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an … selection into childbearing may explain the health effects and that cash transfers may increase birth weight for low-income …

on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

regions that were more exposed to robots, the gender-income and labor-force-participation gaps declined. We then show that US … cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap … gender composition of last-born children produced by sex-selective stopping behavior. The findings indicate a way in which … intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35% greater than the gap without FPP. The effects are explained by the skewed …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of …

income suggests it also improves success of female-led businesses. None of these results hold when tested on men, women above …